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Pennsylvania College of Health Sciences is a private not-for-profit institution located in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. PA College is located in the countryside, which is perfect for students who enjoy a rural lifestyle.

341 Undergraduate Degrees
30 Graduate Degrees
46% Acceptance Rate

Where Is Pennsylvania College of Health Sciences?

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Contact details for PA College are given below.

Contact Details
Address: 850 Greenfield Road, Lancaster, PA 17601
Phone: 800-622-5443
Website: www.pacollege.edu

How Do I Get Into PA College?

You can apply to PA College online at: https://gopacollege.force.com/

Admission Requirements for PA College

Submission Required?
High School GPA 1
High School Rank 3
High School Transcript 1
College Prep Program 5
Recommendations 5
SAT or ACT Scores 5
TOEFL 5

How Hard Is It To Get Into PA College?

46% Acceptance Rate
87% Of Accepted Are Women
11% Submit SAT Scores
You'll need to do what you can to make your application stand out if you plan to apply to PA College. The school screens its applicants carefully and has a fairly low acceptance rate of 46%. So, don't just throw your admission packet together at the last minute!

Approximately 13% of accepted students are men and 87% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 50%, and the acceptance rate for women is 45%.

Average Test Scores

About 11% of students accepted to PA College submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 540 and 620. Math scores were between 510 and 600.

SAT Reading and Writing Scores for Pennsylvania College of Health Sciences  ( 540 to 620 )
200
800
SAT Math Scores for Pennsylvania College of Health Sciences  ( 510 to 600 )
200
800

Can I Afford Pennsylvania College of Health Sciences?

72% Take Out Loans

Student Loan Debt

It's not uncommon for college students to take out loans to pay for school. In fact, almost 66% of students nationwide depend at least partially on loans. At PA College, approximately 72% of students took out student loans averaging $10,679 a year. That adds up to $42,716 over four years for those students.

Pennsylvania College of Health Sciences Undergraduate Student Diversity

668 Full-Time Undergraduates
88% Women
25% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
There are 1,848 undergraduate students at PA College, with 668 being full-time and 1,180 being part-time.

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There are also 163 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 668 full-time undergraduates at PA College, 12% are male and 88% are female.

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Racial-Ethnic Diversity

The racial-ethnic breakdown of Pennsylvania College of Health Sciences students is as follows.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Grads
Asian 23
Black or African American 47
Hispanic or Latino 71
White 483
International Students 0
Other Races/Ethnicities 44

Geographic Diversity

Pennsylvania students aren't the only ones who study at Pennsylvania College of Health Sciences. At this time, 4 states are represented by the student population at the school.

Pennsylvania College of Health Sciences Nursing Concentrations

The table below shows the number of awards for each concentration.

Major Associate’s Bachelor’s Graduate Certificate Master’s Doctor’s TOTAL
Registered Nursing 234 107 0 0 0 341
Family Practice Nurse/Nursing 0 0 1 8 0 9
Nursing Administration 0 0 0 9 0 9
Critical Care Nursing 0 0 2 6 0 8
Nursing Practice 0 0 0 0 3 3
Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse/Nursing 0 0 0 1 0 1
TOTAL 234 107 3 24 3 371

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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